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ance. I consider them fairly rooted, and with the ground fairly- 

 manured 1 have reason to believe, in a few years they will be 

 in condition to well reward all expense of cultivation and use 

 of land. 



Danvers, Oct. 15, 1850. 



William G. Lake's Statement. 



My orchard, offered for your consideration, consists of seven 

 hundred apple trees, standing upon about seven acres of land. 

 They were all set out in the years of 1848, '49 and '50, about 

 an equal number each year. They were all two years upon 

 the bud when set, and the most unsaleable trees in my nursery, 

 with the exception of one hundred and seventy-five, which 

 were as good as any in my nursery at that time. The ground 

 has been ploughed and planted each year. The other orchard 

 contains eighty trees, set out in the fall of 1844 ; two shovels 

 full of manure were applied to each tree in the fall. 



The following are the kinds of fruit : — For winter. Northern 

 Spy, Lady Sweeting, Baldwin, Greening, Roxbury Russet, 

 Danvers Winter Sweet. For fall, Hubbardston Nonsuch, Fall 

 Harvey, Kilham Hill, Gravenstein, Porter, Aunt Hannah, Min- 

 ister, Yellow Bellflower, Lyscom, Alexander, Dutch Codlin, 

 Maiden's Blush, — with several kinds of new fruit, which I 

 have not fairly tested. 



TOPSFIELD, Oct. 9, 1850. 



Moses PettingiVs Statement. 



I offer for premium, my orchard of pear trees, which consists 

 of thirty-six trees, set in the spring of 1846. The land on 

 which they stand is a strong, dark loam, with a clayey subsoil. 

 It had been cultivated for two years, and was in a good state 

 for transplanting. The varieties are as follows : Seckel, Beurre 

 Bosc, Winter Nelis, St. Ghislain, Summer Franc Real, Golden 

 Beurre of Bilboa, Pope's Russet, Dearborn's Seedling, and 

 Pound Pear. In the spring of 1846 I dug the holes for the 

 trees, twenty-five by thirty feet apart. I made them eighteen 

 inches in depth, and four feet broad, and mixed with the soil 



